Power Cable Theology

I’m preaching tomorrow at that excellent church Holy Trinity, Orton Longueville (south Peterborough) for their Dedication Sunday service. A 45 minute all-age Eucharist – with a five minute max sermon on the Trinity. Now there’s a challenge!

Casting around for a way in, I came across a box of old cables in the garage, and hey presto! there was a three-core cable, 3 in 1.

And their chosen reading was all about power!

The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. 17 When they all saw him, they worshipped; but they doubted. 18 Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go, therefore,and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold I am with you always, until the end of the age.”

So:

• Be grounded in the love of the father
• Come alive in Christ
• And complete the circuit of the Spirit’s flow into the world until it returns to him

It works pretty well with John 3 too, the more conventional Gospel for the day:

16For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. 17Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.’

I wouldn’t care to stand trial for the technical accuracy of the theology, but then the traditional clover-leaf image isn’t so different, really; and the kids will have fun plaiting coloured wool into power cables to take home with them too.

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